Hurtado considered ‘a detailed study on the possible reasons and conditions which lead to these tragic events compared to the wider society’ and he highlighted ‘labour conditions and circumstances’

The General Direction of the Guardia Civil has since 2005 operated a protocol concerning suicides, including the Preventative Plan of Psychological Assistance. Carried out by the Psychology Service as an essential procedural tool to intervene in three levels of prevention: 1 – early alerts, 2 – people found in situations of risk and 3 – working conditions and circumstances.

Given a continual analysis of progress on the subject ‘to demonstrate any factors outside the Guardia Civil’ which are to be of concern regarding suicide.

The Unified Association of the Guardia Civil (AUGC in Spanish) are not happy with the numbers and note it equates to one death every 26 days.